A review of this week’s The Good Place, “A Chip Driver Mystery,” coming up just as soon as I get ombre highlights… A very odd thing has happened with this show of late. We’re nearly halfway through the final season, which is built around a new experiment where Eleanor and …
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What defines a millennial? They’ve been called “Generation Me” for presumed narcissism and the “Peter Pan Generation” for delayed adulthood. But the only thing that may really define a millennial is that we’re indefinable. So what the hell is the “millennial identity?” People born between 1980 and 1995 have had …
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On Wednesday’s Full Frontal, Samantha Bee examined the inadequacies of American revenge porn laws, using the upcoming resignation of first-term Congresswoman Katie Hill (D-Calif.) as a springboard into that important discussion. Hill will step down on Friday after acknowledging an inappropriate relationship with a campaign staffer — a decision that …
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“It was two guys hanging out in a kitchen making a movie,” says Thom Zimny. The two guys in question happened to be Bruce Springsteen and Zimny himself: They co-directed the new movie Western Stars, which captures powerful live performances of Springsteen’s latest album in its entirety, along with pensive …
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UPDATE (10/29): Following the publication of this story, Sean Hall, one of the plaintiffs in the case, released the following statement to Rolling Stone:“We are happy the court unanimously sided with us. We simply refuse to sit still and have our creative work be culturally appropriated as if it never …
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A review of this week’s Watchmen, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship,” coming up just as soon as we play pirates and owls… Second episodes are hard — especially when they come after memorable, high-concept pilots. Occasionally, a classic pilot will be followed by a classic second episode (Breaking Bad‘s “The …
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Taylor Swift is serving double duty in the forthcoming new film version of Cats. In addition to her role as Bombalurina, Swift collaborated with lauded composer Andrew Lloyd Webber for a new song called “Beautiful Ghosts.” In a video about the song, Swift, Lloyd Webber and director-screenwriter Tom Hooper discuss …
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Last month, Donald Lawrence, an acclaimed gospel veteran with a half-dozen hits, attended a preview party for Kanye West‘s Jesus Is King album at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. “He did a song called ‘Selah’ that was rap and choir,” Lawrence recalls. “When they got to the hook, it was …
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Around the same time that Stephen King released his 1982 novella, Apt Pupil — in which a teen accuses a neighborhood man of being a Nazi criminal — a real-life alleged former Nazi was uncovered in Cleveland, Ohio. Retired Ukranian-American autoworker John Demjanjuk, a family man, found himself accused of …
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Rose McGowan has filed a federal lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and others, referred to as the “Weinstein-Protection Enterprise,” accusing them of a “pattern of racketeering” carried out in their alleged attempts to keep the actress from revealing that Weinstein allegedly raped her at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. The suit, …
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